Spout for vessels.



No. 673,989. Patented May l4, I90l. A. A. LBW.

SPUUT FOR VESSELS.

(Application filed June 13, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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llNlTED Sterne PATENT OFFICE.

ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SPOUT FOR VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 673,989, dated May 14., 190] Application filed June 13, 1900. Serial No. 20,172. (No model.)

To rtZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABBOT AUGUSTUS Low, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Spout for Vessels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to discharge-spouts for vessels, usually applied to vessels made of metal, the spouts for the discharge of the contents of the vessels being used also for closing the vessels from the air and for hermetically sealing the same. As previously made the spouts have been provided with scre w-threads struck into the metal and forming a thread also upon the inner surface of the spout. To this spout a screw-cap containing sealing material has been applied, and to more securely seal the spout a cork has been placed within the same, and the spout has had a slight taper from the top of the vessel outward to cause the taper cork to fit it. This construction is extremely faulty, because the widening of the spout at its upper end causes the flow of the liquid contents of the vessel to spread outward and a confused flow is the result, and inasmuch as the spout is not smooth inside, but has a spiral inner surface, the flow is still more confused, and it is almost impossible to discharge the vessel without spilling the contents and scattering them over the body of the vessel. Moreover, as the thread on the spout extends to the top an irregular edge is presented to the packing in the sealing-cap, so that as the cap turns in closing it tears the packing, and thus necessitates the use of the cork in the spout, before referred to. My invention is designed to remedy these defects; and to this end it consists in certain elements and combinations fully set forth and claimed in this specification.

In order that persons skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may understand, construct, and use the same, I will proceed to describe it, referring to the drawings herewith, in which- Figure l is a vertical central section of my invention applied to a vessel. Fig. 2 is a top view of same broken away to show the several parts.

A is the body of the vessel.

B is the top surface.

0 is an opening in the top surface.

D is atubular projection secured to the top surface B, around the opening 0, by means of a flange E, formed upon the bottom of the tubular projectionD. This tubular projection D is provided with screw-thread F, pressed into it.

G is an inner tube secured to the top surface B of the vessel, within the tubular projection D, and is held by a flange H at its lower end under the flange E. This tube G constitutes the sealing and pouring spout. It extends upward somewhat above the top of the tubular projection D at I and presents a smooth top edge to the sealing-cap. It also tapers slightly from the bottom to the top, so that the contents of the vessel in discharging are concentrated instead of being diffused. This inner lining-tube is smooth and free from any disturbing action on the outflow of the contents.

K is a cap having a barrel L, provided with screw-thread M to engage with the screw F, formed on the tubular projection D, and has aflange or disk N, turned inward from the top edge of the barrel L. The screw-thread upon barrel L does not extend to the top of said barrel; but a clear space P is left above said thread.

Q is an inner shell or shield having an exterior lip R turned downward from its upper disk, which fits smoothly within the clear space P in barrel L. This inner shellcarries packing material S, and when cap K is screwed hard down upon the barrel L the packing S bears upon the smooth upper edge I of the tube G and is compressed sufficiently to hermetically seal the joint at this point, and as the inner shell Q is independent of cap K it does not partake of any of its movements other than vertical ones, so that the packing material is never disturbed.

Having now fully described my invention and the manner in which I have embodied it, what Iclaim as new and as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a nozzle for cans the combination consisting of the outer barrel, secured to the can and provided with means for securing a sealing-cap thereto, and an inner lining secured substantially as and for the purposes herein- 10 at its base Within the outer barrel, and rising before specified.

above the top of the said outer barrel, and Signed at New York, in the county of New having a smooth inner surface tapering in- York and State of New York, this 16th day wardly from its base toward its upper edge of May, A. D. 1900.

Q I 673,989 g and presenting an even upper edge adapted ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW. to engage with packing in a sealing-cap when Witnesses:

secured upon the said outer barrel, all con- JAMES W. EATON,

structed, arranged and combined to operate GEO. E. OONJJIT. 

